The Canada Winter Games were held in Brandon, Manitoba, from February 12-24, 1979. According to the official Canada Games website, approximately 2,000 athletes and officials and more than 4,000 volunteers participated in the event. Brandon artist and calligrapher Alex Matheson served as games president. Infrastructure improvements resulted in the construction of the Canada Games Sportsplex complex which contained a 400-seat hockey area, raquetball courts a six-lane 50-metre swimming pool, and a speed skating oval. Mount Agassiz was the site for alpine ski events and new cross country ski trails were developed in the Brandon Hills.
Custodial History
Photograph sent to Fred McGuinness from the Winnipeg Free Press Photo Department
Scope and Content
Photograph shows the opening ceremonies of the Canada Games held in Brandon, Manitoba, 1979. Various teams can be seen standing in the hockey arena of the Keystone Centre. Pennants representing the athletic events hang from the rafters.
Notes
Photograph was collected during the research phase of the monograph "Manitoba: The Province & The People" (1987) written by Fred McGuinness and Ken Coates.
[For additional information see "Beatrice Brigden and Radicalism in the Methodist Church" by Tom Mitchell, Manitoba History, Number 19, Spring 1990 (P.E. 26/05/09).]
Custodial History
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
The organization of the boys' pipe band was initiated by a group of citizens of Scottish origin in 1934. The same group engaged an instructor for the band from Scotland; the kilts were discovered in Park School and permission was given by the School Board for their use by the band.
Scope and Content
Portrait of the first Brandon Boys' Pipe Band. Back Row (L to R): Doug Robertson, Bob Patterson, Charlie Creighton, Bernard Redman, Harold Creighton, Ewan Wallace. Centre Row (L to R): Jim Summers, Don Manson, Bill Manson, Gordon Sinclair, Jim Reid, Norm Milne. Front Row (L to R): Drum Major Bill Redman, Stirling Wallace, Ken Creighton, Pipe Major Jimmie Kay.
Notes
Photograph appears in Mary Hume's Brandon: A Prospect of a City, p. 129. History/Bio information is from that book.
Repro Restriction
The McKee Archives is the copyright holder for the Stuckey materials.
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